Actually one of the most powerful and well-known out of body experiences in America was by Reinee Pasarow -- a Bahá'í. She became a Bahá'í after her first experience as a teenager when she was studying the Hidden Words.

No, don't go now reading the Hidden Words and expect a similar experience! We are advised not to "seek" spiritual experiences for the sake of such experiences. It's considered selfish. They come if they come. But we do acknowledge the existence of some while we also recognize that a great percentage of the "paranormal" stories out there are superstitions. Imagination can also play a trick on us and we're warned against putting too much weight on it. Ours is a grounded Faith after all.

Our focus is on spirituality by prayer, meditation and pious deeds for the service of mankind. All other type of "spirituality" will not save this planet from man's own neglect of God's commandments.

Kind regards,

LilWabbit

Yes i know of Miss Pasarow and it was due to a near death experience in which she had died briefly and had the out of body experience not by reading the Hidden words...

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Yes i know of Miss Pasarow and it was due to a near death experience in which she had died briefly and had the out of body experience not by reading the Hidden words...

Yes, but I meant she had just gotten the Hidden Words at a Bahá'í Fireside which had made her consider Christ's return. The actual NDE of course didn't occur while reading or necessarily due to reading. But it did confirm her in the newly-found Faith in her own words. Her NDEs contained references to the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh and terms such as "Blessed Beauty" which she wasn't familiar with before but which she found in the Bahá'í Writings.

"Our focus is on spirituality by prayer, meditation and pious deeds for the service of mankind. All other type of "spirituality" will not save this planet from man's own neglect of God's commandments."

What other types of spirituality are there?

Whenever anything terrible happens, or rather is done, in the world, “we” are somehow to blame for it, not the merely apparent perpetrators. The root cause is always in us, the us in question being our biological, cultural, or political ancestors, but never me in particular. We are responsible, but I am not. We have done something to make them behave badly, and if it were not for us the world would be a peaceful, happy place. And to be ultimately responsible for all the evil in the world is at least flattering to one’s sense of self-importance, the defense of which motivates an important part of many people’s intellectual activity.

"Our focus is on spirituality by prayer, meditation and pious deeds for the service of mankind. All other type of "spirituality" will not save this planet from man's own neglect of God's commandments."

our leaders lie to us to create war killing countless for corp interests in 1898, 1964, and 2003. thinking this makes us better than IRAN is abso-flippin-lutely ridiculous!

it's called operation mockingbird and given what the media did to Gary Webb, it appears to still be running. unfortunate for Gary the cia knew drugs to poor black communities wouldn't bother americans. had drugs been sold in rich white neighborhoods americans would have suddenly cared enough to punish those responsible.

"Our focus is on spirituality by prayer, meditation and pious deeds for the service of mankind. All other type of "spirituality" will not save this planet from man's own neglect of God's commandments."

Whenever anything terrible happens, or rather is done, in the world, “we” are somehow to blame for it, not the merely apparent perpetrators. The root cause is always in us, the us in question being our biological, cultural, or political ancestors, but never me in particular. We are responsible, but I am not. We have done something to make them behave badly, and if it were not for us the world would be a peaceful, happy place. And to be ultimately responsible for all the evil in the world is at least flattering to one’s sense of self-importance, the defense of which motivates an important part of many people’s intellectual activity.

"Our focus is on spirituality by prayer, meditation and pious deeds for the service of mankind. All other type of "spirituality" will not save this planet from man's own neglect of God's commandments."

"Our focus is on spirituality by prayer, meditation and pious deeds for the service of mankind. All other type of "spirituality" will not save this planet from man's own neglect of God's commandments."